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USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is the second America-class amphibious assault ship built for the United States Navy. On 7 May 2012, United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the ship's name as Tripoli , in honor of the US Marine Corps victory against Tripoli at the Battle of Derna during the First Barbary War .
USS Tripoli (LPH-10), an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, was laid down on 15 June 1964 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 31 July 1965; sponsored by Jane Cates, the wife of General Clifton B. Cates, former Commandant of the Marine Corps; and commissioned on 6 August 1966 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
USS Tripoli (LPH-10) - later reassigned for mine-hunting and damaged by a mine on 18 February 1991; USS New Orleans (LPH-11) USS Anchorage (LSD-36) USS Mount Vernon (LSD-39) A U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A from VFA-87 dropping Mk 82 bombs during a sortie in the 1991 Gulf War. The U.S. Navy aircraft carriers USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and ...
In 1991, police discovered Jeffrey Dahmer had 84 polaroid photos depicting 17 murders he committed between 1978 to 1991. ... they discovered a knife and 84 polaroid photos featuring the victims in ...
RICHMOND, Va., April 7 (Reuters) - Virginia's top court on Thursday ordered the release of a former U.S. sailor who has spent 33 years in prison, because new DNA evidence showed he did not murder ...
Operation Fiery Vigil was the emergency evacuation of all non-essential military and U.S. Department of Defense civilian personnel and their dependents from Clark Air Base and U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay during the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Republic of the Philippines.
Only a handful of Dahmer's 17 victims between 1978-1991 were highlighted in the series, and fewer than that were given three-dimensional depictions of the lives they lived and the people they were ...
The LUGM-145 was an Iraqi produced naval moored contact mine. The mine had a 145 kilogram explosive warhead. [1] In February 1991, during the Gulf War, USS Tripoli (LPH-10) struck a LUGM-145 mine, losing a third of its fuel, and sustaining damage that would cost 3.5 million US dollars to repair.